Imaginary View of the Grande Galerie of the Louvre in Ruins

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Imaginary View of the Grande Galerie of the Louvre in Ruins is a famous 18th-century capriccio painting by Hubert Robert that depicts the Louvre’s grand gallery as a romantic, future ruin.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf capriccio
painting
artForm oil painting
artHistoricalContext 18th-century French painting
pre-Revolutionary France
collection Louvre Museum
surface form: Musée du Louvre collection
countryOfOrigin France
creator Hubert Robert
creatorNationality French
depicts Grande Galerie
surface form: Grande Galerie of the Louvre

Louvre Museum
architectural ruins
collapsed ceiling sections
fallen architectural elements
future ruin of the Louvre’s grand gallery
rubble on the gallery floor
vaulted gallery space
visitors walking among ruins
depictsActivity people visiting an art gallery in ruins
depictsArtworks paintings hanging in the gallery
depictsBuilding Grande Galerie
Louvre Palace
surface form: Palais du Louvre
depictsTime imagined future
exhibitionVenue Louvre Museum
genre architectural capriccio
ruin painting
hasArtisticPurpose imaginative transformation of a real space
meditation on time and decay
hasPerspective interior architectural view
hasTheme fascination with antiquity
future history
romanticism of ruins
transience of human achievements
inception 18th century
influencedBy Roman antiquities
classical ruins
languageOfTitle French
location Louvre Museum
mainSubject imagined destruction of the Louvre’s Grande Galerie
movement Neoclassicism
notableWorkOf Hubert Robert
originalTitle Imaginary View of the Grande Galerie of the Louvre in Ruins self-linksurface differs
surface form: Vue imaginaire de la Grande Galerie du Louvre en ruines
partOfSeries imaginary views of the Louvre by Hubert Robert
relatedWork Imaginary View of the Grande Galerie of the Louvre in Ruins self-linksurface differs
surface form: Imaginary View of the Grande Galerie of the Louvre in its Original State
significantPlace Paris
visualizes Louvre as a romantic ruin

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Hubert Robert notableWork Imaginary View of the Grande Galerie of the Louvre in Ruins
Imaginary View of the Grande Galerie of the Louvre in Ruins originalTitle Imaginary View of the Grande Galerie of the Louvre in Ruins self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Vue imaginaire de la Grande Galerie du Louvre en ruines
Imaginary View of the Grande Galerie of the Louvre in Ruins relatedWork Imaginary View of the Grande Galerie of the Louvre in Ruins self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Imaginary View of the Grande Galerie of the Louvre in its Original State
Robert des Ruines notableWork Imaginary View of the Grande Galerie of the Louvre in Ruins
subject surface form: Hubert Robert
this entity surface form: imaginary views of the Louvre